The Training of Trainers Manual - UNFPA

Training topic
Introduction to team building and trust building
Objectives of the session
To start a process of team building in the workshop, to allow participants to
understand the importance of team building in training, and to get experience with
appropriate team-building techniques.
Introduction
After the group has experienced the first team-building exercise (Moving
Sculptures, below), the facilitator should discuss the importance of team and trust
building in a training workshop. The other examples of team-building exercises
(The Human Knot and Aha, and I Was There) could be included in a future
workshop or used as an energizer at another point in the training.
Early in a peer educators’ training session, it is important that the trainees develop
a sense of teamwork and trust. Team-building and trust-building exercises help
create working relationships among peer educators who, in their future work, must
be able to collaborate and sometimes rely on each other for support. They must
trust each other enough to work successfully as a team.
Exercise: Moving sculptures
Objectives
To energize participants and encourage them to be spontaneous
and ‘get outside themselves’ while performing
20-45
minutes
(often repeatable
with variations)
To help participants work towards building a team and developing
trust
Materials
None
Also suitable for
training of peer
educators
Process
Designate an open space at the front of the room as the ‘stage’ area. Tell the group,
‘In this exercise we will make some human team sculptures and poems together.
It’s a team-building and group creativity exercise.’
Ask for a volunteer to come up to the stage and strike a pose of his or her choice
(demonstrate). Once this first person is in a pose, ask for another volunteer to
come up and strike a different pose that in some way touches the first pose. (Make
sure that everyone is comfortable with the physical contact.) Ask more participants
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